“Love”: Philosopher and novelist Carrie Jenkins has been challenging normative expectations about love, romance, and sexuality for the past decade. In this essay for our “New Basics” series, Jenkins begins by critiquing the idea that “certain kinds of ‘normal’ relationships – loving, committed, monogamous, permanent – are respectable while others aren’t”, before offering her own account of “eudaimonic love” that foregrounds “what it is about love that is truly valuable and worthy of our respect, and what kinds of relationships best exemplify those qualities”. You can read Carrie’s essay here.
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